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The Great Santini (Jack Cassidy) is a magician extraordinaire at a cabaret. He is also being blackmailed by his insatiably greedy employer, impresario Jesse Jerome (Nehemiah Persoff), over the fact that he is actually Sergeant Stefan Mueller, a former Nazi SS prison guard. Mueller tires of the arrangement and Jerome's demand for more money, and ...
Columbo is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. [2] [3] After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie.
The Great Santini is a 1979 American drama film written and directed by Lewis John Carlino. It is based on the 1976 novel by Pat Conroy . The film stars Robert Duvall , Blythe Danner , and Michael O'Keefe .
Before Peter Falk was cast in the role of Columbo, Bert Freed played the character in "Enough Rope", a 1960 episode of The Chevy Mystery Show, a TV anthology series.In 1962, that episode became a stage play titled Prescription: Murder, which starred Thomas Mitchell as Columbo, Joseph Cotten and Agnes Moorehead as Roy and Claire Flemming, and Patricia Medina as Flemming's mistress.
The Great Santini: Bull Meechum [39] 1981 True Confessions: Detective Sergeant Tom Spellacy [40] The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper: Gruen [41] 1983 Tender Mercies: Mac Sledge Also co-producer [42] [43] Angelo My Love: N/A: Director and producer only [35] 1984 The Stone Boy: Joe Hillerman [44] The Natural: Max Mercy [45] 1986 Let's Get Harry: Norman ...
Michael O'Keefe (born Raymond Peter O'Keefe Jr.; April 24, 1955) is an American actor, known for his roles as Danny Noonan in Caddyshack, Ben Meechum in The Great Santini, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Darryl Palmer in the Neil Simon movie The Slugger's Wife.
Michael Strong was born in New York City as Cecil Natapoff, the son of Russian-Jewish parents who emigrated to the U.S. in 1903, fleeing the pogroms of Russia. [4] He grew up in the Bronx.
Cynthia Sikes was born in Coffeyville, Kansas. Early in her career she went by Cindy Lee Sikes, and later used Cynthia Sikes professionally until her marriage to Bud Yorkin, where she changed it to Cynthia Sikes Yorkin.